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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1966
Page
2
A midday note shows the New York stock market turning positive after four straight declines. The AP average of 60 stocks rose .3 to 293.4, with industrials up .7 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average at noon gaining 1.73 to 796.32.
A spokesman says missiles were pellet driven not MIG jets and it is unclear if planes planned to attack but they were headed toward Long Beach. The U S Navy maintains three aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin with Long Beach protecting the fleet. U S B 52 bombers struck North Vietnamese troops north of the DMZ as raids intensify ahead of a new Communist drive south.
Gilmour 24 of Salt Lake City and Wortham 25 of North Little Rock, Army veterans, stood before Russian judges in a Moscow case. Gilmour pleaded for mercy after admitting to stealing a bear statue from a Lenin grad hotel. Prosecution seeks fines and potential prison or asset seizure.
Mrs. Kennedy and Look magazine edge toward a deal in the Look Manchester manuscript dispute. Lawyers for both sides plan settlement talks to craft a word by word edit while Cowles and Harper & Row prepare for possible court action next week.
The Mad Axman Frank Mitchell, Britain’s most violent criminal, sent a letter with his signature and thumbprint to the Daily Mirror and The Times asking for help in his plight. Scotland Yard verified the letter as authentic and Mitchell offered to surrender if given a hopeful future and promised no violence.
Greensboro merchant Ralph Johns has offered to trade himself for a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. The response is widespread with about 300 letters and cards from across the United States, Vietnam, Canada, and the Panama Canal Zone. Some praise the humane gesture while a few urge alternative paths like joining Peace Corps or Job Corps. Johns plans to close his shop in 45 days and then travel to Washington to press his proposal.
Regional forecast notes cooler weekend with light rain totals. North Carolina and South Carolina expect near normal inland temperatures Thursday through Monday with coastal areas 2 to 8 degrees below normal. Readings include Asheville 47/27 Charlotte 51/31 Raleigh 51/31 Columbia 57/34 Charleston 60/38.
Bassett Furniture Industries released figures for the year ended November 30 showing net earnings of 8,873,218 or 3.86 per share, up 18.8 percent from last year. Sales reached 94,694,847, a 6.8 percent increase, with plant enlargements and a new showroom in Thomasville cited and a major 1967 advertising campaign announced.
Lucius D. Amerson will take office January 16 as Macon County sheriff making history as the first Negro sheriff in the South since Reconstruction. He vows no unfair or brutality type treatment, no partiality toward Negroes or whites, and plans integrated offices with temporary precinct substations to hear complaints. Amerson says white residents have shown friendliness with no threats so far.
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